Keep Portsmouth Loud group to meet tonight

Tuesday

Sep 2, 2014 at 12:46 PMSep 2, 2014 at 12:50 PM

PORTSMOUTH — Organizers of the Keep Portsmouth Loud Facebook page are holding a "Voices and Pints" event tonight at 7 upstairs at the Press Room to have a friendly discussion about noise issues in the city.

Jeff McMenemy

PORTSMOUTH — Organizers of the Keep Portsmouth Loud Facebook page are holding a "Voices and Pints" event tonight at 7 upstairs at the Press Room to have a friendly discussion about noise issues in the city.

Trevor Bartlett, a Portsmouth resident and one of the founders of the group, said Tuesday the group is holding the meeting to continue the discussion and "to keep the ball rolling.""There’s an impression by some that the postponement of the meeting ... is interpreted as a political move to hope we lose steam and quiet down," Bartlett said.

Mayor Robert Lister announced on Friday that a previously scheduled meeting for tonight to talk about noise concerns revolving around the Prescott Park Arts Festival had been canceled, and it has not yet been rescheduled.

Bartlett said Keep Portsmouth Loud, which was formed in protest of the cancellation by the arts festival of a movie night last week — wanted to meet to keep the momentum going even though Lister had canceled his meeting.

The plan for tonight is to "drink some pints and talk amongst ourselves," and anybody who wants to join the conversation — including city officials — are invited, Bartlett said.

He sees the ongoing noise disputes in the city, including at the arts festival and at the Gas Light on Market Street, as an example of "capitalism and democracy colliding."

"People with the money seem to be getting more of a voice," Bartlett said. "It probably shouldn’t be like that."

He stressed that tonight’s meeting is about hearing from people in the community and is not a fund-raiser.

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